Brave Yoshihiko and Great Satan's Castle made my day.
1. Heartstrings 넌 내게 반했어 (Finished 2/15)  Tags: Music, Romance, Youth, Drama Lee Sin is a university student majoring in modern music. He is the vocalist of the band "The Stupid" and also plays the guitar. He is known for his good looks and his strong passion for music but is, in reality, a cold person who is uninterested in non-music-related things and has no dreams or plans for the future. Sin initially likes a dance professor at his university, but this all changes when he meets Lee Gyu Won. Lee Gyu Won is a bright and outgoing student who was born into a prestigious family and is majoring in traditional Korean instruments, especially the gayageum. Gyu Won's grandfather, Lee Dong Gun, is one of the top 3 traditional musicians of his age, and his biggest wish is to have his granddaughter trained to become a traditional music prodigy in 10 years' time. Trying to live up to her grandfather's expectations, Gyu Won immerses herself in training and becomes a university student who knows nothing besides traditional music. As Gyu Won's friends are fans of "The Stupid", she was forced to go to the band's concert with them. There, she sees Lee Sin performing live and is immediately captivated by him. Under a light musical facade the same rotten bitter core as usual, so only slightly above average. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Romance, Fantasy, Political A car accident sends Zhang Xiao back in time into the body of one of her previous reincarnations, a 16-year-old aristocratic Manchu girl, Maertai Ruoxi, who lived during the Qing Dynasty. Despite knowing that she shouldn’t get involved in palace intrigue over the succession to the throne, Ruoxi became a pawn in the struggle since she couldn’t help but love someone, as others came to love her. Time travel, reincarnation and reverse harem make it triple red flag and thus a dump. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Business, Comedy, Romance, Melodrama Love is an extraordinary thing. However, love becomes sweeter when it involves two extraordinary people. An extremely odd Eun Seol, who's fresh out of college, struggles to get a job because of her third-rate university degree. Despite this, she lands a job at a company where she meets her extremely weird boss. Though Ji Hun's got the looks, the money, and the connections, he's got a lot to work on in terms of his character as an heir to his father's chaebol. Through thick and thin, just to keep her job, Eun Seol does her best to protect her boss, but soon enough, she finds herself falling in love with him. Or maybe, it just so happened to be the other way around, too. Even with a physically strong and willful heroine it encompasses lots of kdrama old illnesses. It tires me a lot and I'm not even finding it funny. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Life, Melodrama A romantic comedy about a non-married, low ranking office worker who is given numbered days to live. Lee Yeon Jae is given the grim prognosis that she only has a short time left to live, so she decides to quit her job at a travel agency and live her life to the fullest. Can't stand terminal conditions in the center of the plot for valid reasons. It inevitably involves self-pity, tearjerkers and lots of suffering. It's a cheesy choice for a concept that I can't accept. And realization is nothing unusual. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Drama Kongkai is a playboy. His mother wants him to settle down, so she forces him to marry Arunprapai. Despite the lack of love, Arunprapai agrees to marry Kongkai to escape the rumor of adultery with Phuchong, her ex-boyfriend who impregnated another woman. Unfortunately, the married life of Kongkai and Arunprapai is not smooth; Kongkai's ex-girlfriend, Prungchat, wants him back. Thai fake relations are ten times worse than usual. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Action, Historical, Romance, Political Princess Se Ryung is the headstrong and forward-thinking daughter of Grand Prince Su Yang, who is determined to be King. She falls in love with the son of his mortal enemy, and their romance gets caught in the crossfire of her father's quest for the throne. Just dull palace intrigues and stupid acrobatic pirouettes. Romance starting with lies and impersonation is another penalty point. All I see is fake melodrama tropes, so no point in watching it further. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Melodrama The story of a family with four sons who live together with their relatives on a farm near Seoul. Hwang Tae Hee is the third son and a policeman who falls in love with a girl named Baek Ja Eun. Baek Ja Eun is a haughty young woman who only believes in her pretty looks and is quick to flare up in anger. Big family. 60 hours long. Can go to hell. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Romance, Drama Ma Fu Ya is a princess of the Chu state in 10th century China. In this time of warring kingdoms and political upheaval, Fu Ya's uncle usurps the throne, and brutally wipes out her family. Fu Ya bravely takes on the quest of avenging her family and restoring her kingdom, no matter the cost. Loved by both the Prince of Shu Meng Qi You and the Prince of Northern Han Liu Lian Cheng, the exiled princess becomes entrenched in the Shu court succession struggle, and the battle between their contending states. Rising to power amid war, romance, and betrayal, what fate awaits Fuya, her people, and her love? Exiled princess is not a bad concept choice given the alternatives, but there's again physically impossible pirouettes, again impersonation, again palace intrigues, again horrible actor play... it's all fake and below my minimal standards to even consider watching it on. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama Di Ya Xin is the wealthy CEO of a popular cosmetics company and seems to have everything going for him in life. By chance he meets Yang Guang, a poor but cheerful woman from a small island village, and the two don’t get off on the right foot. Soon afterwards Yang Guang ends up taking a job as a maid for a rich household to pay off her con artist parents’ debts, only to discover her new employer is Di Ya Xin. Neither person is pleased with the situation, but just as Yang Guang’s charms are growing on Ya Xin he faces an unexpected betrayal and loses his family’s company, becoming broke and homeless in the process. Yang Guang remains by his side and helps him navigate through the hardships, while he secretly focuses on a plan to take back the company. Taiwanese remake of a cliché Korean drama . Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama Bua comes from a wealthy, Chinese-Thai family in the soy sauce industry. Her mom is constantly longing for respect within the hi-so community and forces Bua to marry Chatchai, a man who could get them there. Bua is a sweet person but cannot fathom marrying a man she does not love and barely knows, so she and her best friend Cartoon try to find a way out. Coincidentally, they overhear her brother Petch talking on the phone with his friend Ran—Bua's childhood crush—who is in need of a woman to masquerade as his girlfriend! This inspired the duo to formulate a plan. As I've already said at this very page, Thai fake relations are ten times worse than usual. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Drama, Family A drama that deals with the age differences in relationships. Woo Joo Young and Jang Woo Bin explore the older woman-younger man relationship whereas Jang Woo Jin and Joo Young's younger sister, Joo Mi, deal with the huge age gap between them. Only Korean drama are like this - take one trait to distinguish it and that's perfectly enough for 50 hours. False. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Business, Comedy, Romance, Melodrama Poor but bubbly Liu Xiao Bei, who is trying to earn some money for her family, cross-paths with a cold, rich, genius CEO of a hotel chain, Xiang Tian Qi, who, in a series of unfortunate events, meets with an accident and loses his memory entirely. Liu Xiao Bei and her family take Xiang Tian Qi under their wing and integrate him into their little village life, giving him a new name, Liu Xiao Yu, and a new life. Feelings between the both of them begin to grow as they live together, share the family burdens, and assist with the troubles of the poor little village in which they live. But what happens when Xiang Tian Qi's best friend and fiancee re-discover him living his new life in the village and Xiang Tian Qi regains the memory of his old life? Chinese remake of a poor Taiwanese drama. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Business, Comedy, Romance, Drama Qin Zi Qi is a MBA graduate who has everything handed to him because he is the future successor of Jingshi Department Store. However, his father worries he will not make a good manager and decides to train him by having him work as an entry-level employee for a year. During the year he has to live on his own salary and never reveal his true identity, or he will have to renounce his succession right. Qin could not have survived the year has it not been for Shen Xing Reng's office survival guide. Shen is a Jingshi marketing specialist who has just saved her first $1,000,000 for the down payment on a house. She works very hard to achieve her goal. Together, Shen and Qin accomplish the impossible, which is to shine on the bottom of the office pyramid. Office romcom, and since it's Taiwanese, it's also rather silly and immature. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Life, Youth, Drama IS follows the high school life of Hoshino Haru. Haru was born intersex meaning that he was born with physical characteristics of both sexes and cannot clearly be assigned as a binary gender based on these physical characteristics. Registered as female at birth but later raised as a boy (gender) since he always played with boys his age during the earlier years of school. Haru is forced to attend high school as a girl because of this. I hoped story would be about personality and some bigger story of such person and not just about difficulties, but so far it seems that my hope was for nothing, and it's more straightforward than expected. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Music, Romance, Drama, Melodrama Go Eun Bi is a medical student, but dreams of becoming a musical actress. Hong Jae Yi is an ultra-talented composer who becomes involved in a love triangle with Go Eun Bi and Bae Kang Hee. Bae Kang Hee is a musical diva, full of confidence and pride in herself. When I see drama called "The Musical" I expect it to be musical. But in reality it should be called "Training for a musical". It's not special in any way. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Drama A lakorn involving a forced marriage that wasn't meant to be. Bee's cousin should have married Mark but the day before the wedding, her cousin was kidnapped by a guy who had loved her for years. He kidnapped her, assaulted her, got her pregnant, and thus everything changed. The young and bratty Bee had to take the place of her cousin because it was a marriage to erase a debt. Her uncle owed money to Mark and his father. Since he can't use his daughter, he'll use his niece instead. For the third time... Thai fake relations are ten times worse than usual. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Melodrama Kang Jae Mi led a happy life with her parents, but by the time she was 19 years old, her father had an affair, and her parents soon divorced. Jae Mi promised her mother that she would never see her father again. Later, Jae Mi fell in love with Han Jung Soo and married. 3 years later, Jae Mi tries her best to make a happy family. She runs a restaurant with her husband and, for all intents and purposes, is happy. Jae Mi also believes her husband is happy. Due to her parents' divorce, Jae Mi is also firmly resolved that she will never divorce, but it turns out that Jung Soo is having an affair with another woman. Furthermore, his mistress becomes pregnant, and Jung Soo wants a divorce. On their 3rd anniversary, Jung Soo gifts airplane tickets for Guam to Jae Mi, her mother and aunt. Byun Dong Woo is a lawyer who is supported by his mother. He has always been influenced by his mother and sister. Dong Woo always thought he wanted to be single for the rest of his life. Through a twist of fate, his sister's husband is also Jae Mi's father, Kang Hyung Do, which is unknown to all parties. To make his mom feel better, Dong Woo bought airplane tickets for Guam. Both families head for Guam on vacation, unaware of the fated unions that are bound to occur. Meanwhile, while Jae Mi is away in Guam, her husband Jung-Soo carries out his plan to illegally file for divorce. As usual for soap opera, there's no good distinctive story and we're expected to enjoy messy characters lives. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Youth, Sports Ashiya Mizuki has just come back to Japan from California where she was raised. She fell in love with Sano Izumi, a hopeful high jump hero, who has quit after an accident. As she wants him to go back to the sport once again, she enters the same high school as a boy. With a short hair, flattened chest and lowered voice, she starts sharing the same room with Sano. If there are remakes that I'm trying , it's Japanese ones. But reverse harem is just not the concept I can enjoy. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama Devoted to becoming an international lawyer, Ayukawa Wakaba is full of ambition. Her hard work pays off when she lands a job at an international law firm, but to her disappointment, the first prestigious assignment that is given to her is to babysit the boss' 5 year old daughter, Hinata. Wakaba loathes kids and nursing, but unwillingly takes on the job as she is fixated on wealth and success. One day when she goes to a preschool to pick up Hinata, she meets a man named Yamada Sota. Sota is a man without higher education, wealth, or a future goal, someone that Wakaba absolutely cannot stand, the complete opposite of her ideals. Once again, contrary to her will, she ends up looking after Hinata and a few other kids along with Sota. Despite being exhausted from all the first-time experiences in child care, Wakaba begins to realize what is truly important to her. A heart-warming comedy about work, relationships and love. Childcare with tilt on cuteness, but there's no engaging story for me, so not enjoying it. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Life Time is a woman's enemy. On her 30th birthday, Cheng You Qing received an e-mail from Li Da Ren, her male best friend of 14 years, about the symptoms of premature aging. Unable to bear the fact that, as a man, Li Da Ren is likened to a fine wine that gets better with age and that as a woman, she is likened to a grape that will dry up like a raisin over time, she makes a bet with him to see who will marry first before they turn 35. As she scouts for a potential husband, she finds that despite whoever she meets, there is always one person whom she can be totally at ease with and who is willing to put up with her independent, ill-tempered and stubborn personality - her best friend, Li Da Ren. The only problem is that the both of them had already sworn to each other that they would never fall in love with each other. Rather typical romance concept, that's why there are so many remakes of it. For me it's rather boring as it's all about age/friendship to lovers/promise, and in rather simplistic manner . Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Action, Historical, Mystery, Romance Set in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman, who wants to complete her studies despite her gender restrictions, takes advantage of the disappearance of her stepbrother and disguises herself as a Eunuch named Son Neion. Later, still under disguise, she passes the exam to be a royal governments official. Cross-dressing, investigation mystery and supernatural elements make three red flags, so would not torture myself for long here. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Action, Historical, Romance, Drama After the massacre at Fah Roong Farm in Phu Prakarn city, Phupa and Usa, the owner of the farm are killed. There's Tawan, their only son who survived and escaped with Saroj, Phupa's best friend. Saroj believes the manipulator of this massacre is Sakda, Phupa's business partner who wants to seize Fah Roong Farm. Saroj takes Tawan to escape from the hunt and raises him up to be a brave fighter like him. He sends Tawan back to Fah Roong Farm again to find out about the mystery of his family's death and avenge them. On the way, Tawan meets Singh, who becomes his new friend. Tawan decides to change his name to be Suer, so that it will be easier to disguise himself to work in Fah Roong Farm. Unfortunately, he finds out that Sakda had problems with Por Liang Jaran,the most influential person in Phu Prakarn, and he has fled to hide himself. Sakda leaves Fah Roong Farm in the hands of his 2 daughters, PetchRoong and Ploykhwan to take care of. Thai revenge drama is instant NO till I see at least one decent enough Thai drama. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Romance, Drama Gye Baek was born as the son of Mu Jin, a student and guard of Baekje’s King Mu, but because of his father being falsely accused, he grew up as a commoner in the market streets.There, he meets a merchant named Eun Go and he falls in love with her. One day, after getting caught up fighting in the mountains, Gye Baek is lowered to become a war slave and becomes a prisoner of war for Silla. At Silla, he reunites with Uija who came as an envoy and learns there is a great secret about his father’s death. Though King Uija and Gye Baek have a strong friendship, they both have feelings for Eun Go at the same time. Gye Baek’s loyalty to Baekje and King Uija completes a history page. What will the situation be in the relationship of Uija and Gye Baek with Eun Go in between? As if ancient story is not enough of red flag, it's literally about noname commoner to slave, so bears zero use. There are still no good sageuks, and they are already making their usual romance stories, just in different times... And first episode is disappointing already, so can't imagine how low it sinks. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Thriller, Business, Romance, Drama With great talent in the world of business, Xu Ran is the standard picture of a successful businessman, enjoying the luxuriousness of wealth at the summit of his career. Tang Qi Qi is a normal white collar female worker, living a life filled with trivial matters and unrealistic dreams. Feng Lu Fei is from a rich family, depending on her own skills to create her own world-three parallel lives intertwined with each other by chance. Who will the Prince turned Frog choose? The cute Cinderella or the beautiful princess? Police officer Wei Xiao is Xu Ran's best buddy; yet is always on bad terms with Xu Ran's subordinate,Ye Rou. What twists and turns will happen to them? On the otherhand, the Union, an international giant finance company, with spokewoman Xiong Jia Jie is slowly extending their dark hands towards them... Chinese interactions are so not trustworthy and fake. And 30 episodes about slow revenge is definitely beyond my tolerance. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance The drama is a romantic comedy about the son of the CEO of a department store who falls in love with a poor girl. In order to earn more money, the girl binds up her chest and goes to live in a boy's dormitory where many amusing things happen. Taiwanese originals are usually the most banal predictable cliché filled tropes imaginable. They are true to themselves here. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance Namfah is a professional event organizer. She is strong, capable, and has a huge ego about herself. After she learns of her mother’s supposed illness, she is given a deadline to get married. This begins her quest on finding her Mr. Perfect. It is not easy on her, though. After numerous dates, and not-really-dates, she convinces Din to be her boyfriend in order to please her mother. However, Din is not exactly honest about his past as he is a quite successful photographer under the pseudonym of Mr. D. Lakorns never stop surprising me how low and primitive they can fall. One more champion in that regard. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Drama, Family Plerng is the only son of Phiphat and Pongphaeo, who lives in Ranong and does fishing for a living. Pipat is actually the eldest son of Khun Ying Thongtra Chatayothin, the owner of Thai Diamonds Company, or Phet Thai. Twenty years back, Phiphat fell in love with Pongphaeo, a poor woman who Khun Ying Thongtra despised. Phiphat was given two choices: stay with his mother or leave the house and go with Pongphaeo. He chose option number two and lived a peaceful life in Ranong with his family. One day, however, Phiphat's mother became ill and decided finally to visit her. But they got into an accident along the way. Plerng's mother was in a coma and his father was in a vegetative state. After finding out that his grandmother was in the same hospital, he decided to give his father's heart to his grandmother, but her aunt tricked him and made him promise to hide the truth from his grandmother. When his mother awoke, they got back living in their town until fate made him reunite with her grandmother. Usual stupidity, toxicity, constant fighting... unwatchable. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi Maneejan finds out that she can travel to the past through a mirror she bought at an antique shop. That mirror brings her to the place of Khun Luang Akarathep Warakorn, a government official who lived over a hundred years ago. Her appearance causes him and everyone in the house a shock. But with her wit, she gradually gains everyone's favor. The more times she travels to the past, the more feeling she and Khun Luang develop for each other. But, what causes her to travel to the past? Why is she the one chosen? In that time when Thailand (formerly Siam) was under pressure from Western Colonialism, will she be able to do anything to help save the country? While the problem of the country must be solved, Maneejan also faces another problem - the mirror starts to break. She needs to decide whether to reside with the man she loves in the past or to go back to the future to continue living her regular life with her family and friends. Until I find an adequate lakorn just one red flag is enough for blocking lakorns, and time travel is enough here. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Horror, Romance, Supernatural Rerin, the textile professor goes to take vacation in Chiang Mai because she wants to have time to think over about her relationship with Thanin, her fiance. On her vacation, she meets Suriyawong, the owner of The Chang Restaurant in Chiang Mai who descends from the prince and Grandma Bua Ngern. Suriyawong falls in love at first sight with Rerin and feels like she's someone who he has longed for. However, Wongprajan, Suriyawong's relative and the owner of Le Laos Restaurant comes in to obstruct their love and declare herself as his fiancee. Supernatural horror is all that it takes for a red flag block with lakorn. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Law, Romance, Life Eun Jae and Hyung Woo are both highly competent lawyers who met and fell in love at first sight without knowing each other's occupations, but are now in the midst of their divorce proceedings. Their relationship was initially sweet and loving, but their marriage slowly began to crack under their constant fights Non-stop fighting and shouting is unbearable. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Drama Ichinomiya "Riku" Kou, a young upper-class man who tries to live a life without any debts to anyone, and a strange yet beautiful homeless girl called Nino who claims to be from Venus. Unfortunately for him, he ends up owing his life to Nino and has no choice but to live with her under the bridge by the Arakawa river in order to follow his debt-free policy. The only question is if this version is comparable to anime one, and for me this one is worse. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance Kai Ying Tai is the heir of a wealthy family. His dream is to become a famous writer, but such a career path does not correspond with his father. Ying Tai leaves home in order to pursue his dreams. Looking for inspiration for a new book, the boy meets Huai Zhen, who by mistake accuses him of murder. Ying Tai decides to take revenge on it and use it as a major theme of his book, provoking various events. That is, until, when his heart starts to pound for Huai Zhen. Which turns out to be stronger - love or dreams for the release of the book? Surprisingly little comedy. Ordinary romance without anything good. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy The story is set in an ancient time, when the whole country was covered in thick forests. A mysterious plague breaks out, resulting in countless deaths. A pure young man named Yoshihiko becomes chosen as a hero, and he sets out on a journey in order to save a village. He has two goals - to bring back the legendary plant that can cure the plague, and to rescue his father Teruhiko who left to find the plant but never returned. Pretty hilarious parody slightly under 30 minutes, but will do. It does not lose tempo in the middle and keeps being inventive and occasionally a musical, plus there are lots of guest stars. But can't say I'm head over heels about it and don't think I rated any parody higher than 8, so same highest score here. Overall Rating: 8/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Romance, Drama 1st Master Long and his sworn brother Fang Xiu Cai, work together to save their village people during a serious epidemic. They later discover that the cause of the disease is the vicious scheme of Madam Long and 2nd Master Long. The cruel pair later cause the death of 1st Master Long and frame Fang Xiu Cai for the epidemic, hence causing the death of the entire Fang family with Fang Xiu Cai's infant son being the sole survivor. While escaping death, Fang Xiu Cai's son is accidentally swapped with the son of the Long family. The real heir of the Long family is adopted by the Guan family while Fang's son is brought up by the Long family. Republican era is not particularly interesting for me, and unlisted martial arts mean instant block as my hate for it is immense. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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35. Sanctuary (2011) 圣堂风云 (Finished 1/30)  Tags: Action, Historical, Drama During the early 20's in Shanghai, there are many forces eyeing on the wealthiness of Shanghai. Besides internal forces (generals in the country as well as some wealthy businessmen are trying to conquer and monopolize the town), the Japanese are interested with this place. This story focuses on how Liu Mo Yuan and Li Jie Yang fight for the peace in their little town. Liu Mo Yuan and Li Jie Yang are not only rival in fighting for peace, but also love rival in fighting for Sung Xiao He. Republican era again, and guess what also comes again... of freaking martial arts. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Family "Live in Style" is a family story. The family are in a difficult situation now, but they try to overcome and live in style. Each member of this large family have unusual names. Large family, large runtime, zero concept or plot direction, as usual. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Drama, Supernatural In this unusual story, Matsuda plays a child welfare official Shirota working at a child consultation center, while Takahashi Katsumi plays a charitable yakuza boss Sabashima. These two lead completely different lives, but one day, their souls are suddenly switched. As a result, Shirota begins dispensing odd advice about the "rules of society" and other things. While his colleagues naturally see this as a problem, the children gradually come to rely on him. Body switch is a pretty fat red flag, because all these "what if" supernatural concepts generally come out purely entertaining and surface scratching. Even went for the 2nd episode in hope of improvement, but, alas. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Psychological, Drama Fukami Hiroki's younger sister was killed by a friend. Hiroki then meets the killer's sister, Toyama Futaba, 15 years after the incident. Both of their families have been burdened with grief, but through their meeting they struggle to find a brighter tomorrow. As you see, there's a concept and no development supposed beyond that, so it's an eternal cycle of misery and putting blame to others on and on and on just to fill time somehow. They're remembering and revisiting that scene over and over again and describe it to everyone around to inspire vengeful rage and hatred everywhere. Hoped for some change for the better, but it remained grim revenge slop to the end. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Life, Family 30-year-old Miki Makoto is an ordinary housewife struggling with housework and childrearing, but she has always believed in the importance of managing the household over looking beautiful so that her husband, Atsushi can go out to work without any worries. However, his infidelity spurs her to make up her mind to search for her "self" and become beautiful. Choosing the path of an amateur model, she steps into a modelling world that is more rough than she had imagined. Her weapons are her height which has given her an inferiority complex since young, and her extraordinary determination. She keeps having internal conversations with herself as she regains her lost beauty . Fashion is a poor theme for me, but the Japanese made me watch it to the end somehow. Probably the best representative of fashion drama so far, but I'm not ready to give it a masterpiece nevertheless as it's not unique or profound or something great. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Family A dad who is popular with the ladies and a mom that continues to love the dad without any doubt like a young girl. The four sisters that the unbelievably ironclad husband and wife raised includes, an unmarried and divorced, a marriage hunter, a boyfriend-less, and one that has no luck with men. Out of them all, the second daughter Takemi, was the problem child, having divorced multiple times and has 3 kids. Because Takemi lives true to herself, she often ends up standing out from everyone, and gets called "the femme fatale with many lovers," problem child," and "devil." Will she end up causing many humorous troubles!? Three episodes in, and it's still a mess with too many main characters and no coherent plot, just family with switching characters all the time. Still good family drama, definitely better than thousands of similar Korean ones. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Drama In Tokyo in the 80s, before the Big Bubble: Momoko is the second oldest daugther of four siblings in the Mitamura family. After her father Tadashi Mitamura is laid off from work and suddenly disappears, the sensitive Momoko feels most responsible to fill his place. But the family starts to break apart, when their problems outgrow. Mother Ayano deals with her disappointment, oldest sister Sakura Shimizu is troubled by her husband´s infidelity and the youngest, brother Kentaro faces a difficult job hunt and begins questioning his own life. Well, lots of troubles, but very little interest in all this. It was so tasteless that wanted to watch to the end just get any impression at all. And it goes like that to the end with just a random event happening in the end, so very disappointing for NHK work. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Drama, Supernatural We all experience birth, old age, sickness, and death. Yet, have you ever wondered who determines the time of our death? Respected pharmaceutical doctor Kong Tung Kin starts up his own clinic after a drug trial incident. One day, he is approached by Toi Fung, who claims to be Satan, for a patient’s life. Refusing to do so, he suggests handing over his own. His reaction takes Fung by surprise. With a view to getting to know more about human beings, Fung interferes with Kin’s life, including his family and career. In addition, he runs after Fong Siu Fong, a nurse Kin has been secretly in love with. Later, Kin sells his soul to Fung for money and fame. As time goes by, he starts to become a totally different person, losing his kindness without himself knowing it. What a fresh concept ... for those never reading anything about Faust. Picture quality seems to be finally fine even though actor play only so-so I'm totally against such useless entertainment-driven supernatural concept and not enjoying it in the least . Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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